Each month, 700 deputies travel from Brussels to Strasbourg. 8 trucks filled with files are carried all the way from Brussels to Strasbourg. This burocratic irrationality is caused by the attitude of France. Though we are facing a parliament who even has difficulties to decide where to meet, the European deputies claim to have improved their impact and force in...

The idea that democracy is essential for progress and that unhindered declarations of the preferences of the hoi polloi must replace those of authoritarian administrators has been supported by a great number of thinkers. Of these, Francis Galton’s experiment is one of the most convincing.
Betting at the farmers’ fair
In the year 1906, Francis Galton,...

Taking the previous right-leaning parties as their model, the AKP takes more steps toward authoritarianism than its predecessors.
Turkey is among the world’s young democratic countries and that democracy brings with it the election system. Voters perceive they hold the power because they are able to determine major government bodies, such...

Although the women of Turkey had obtained various rights long before many European countries had, a reverse process began in the aftermath thereof.
Duygu Asena,a famous Turkish female writer who made significant contributions regarding the development of women’s movement in Turkey, had summarized the position of women in Turkey quite well with the name of her...

Turkey’s chronic “Kurdish problem” has always been a central issue in both the republic’s domestic and foreign policy since its very foundation. However, the armed opposition of Kurdish ethno-nationalism has become one of the biggest challenges to the Turkish state and democracy in only the last two or three decades following the emergence of the PKK....